London’s Earth Creature is a Super Adobe Dome Built By The City’s Smallest Architects

London's Earth Creature is a dome-shaped playscape that was designed and built by eco-build specialists <a href="http://www.small-earth.com/">Small Earth</a> and pupils at the Hounslow Heath Infant and Nursery School in just six weeks. The structure, which is made of adobe, was built for the Festival of the World on the <a title="London's Earth Creature is a Super Adobe Dome By The City's Smallest Architects" href="http://world.southbankcentre.co.uk/" target="_blank">South Bank</a> of the River Thames. The playscape is eco-friendly, earthquake resistant and affordable, and it gave the city's smallest architects an opportunity to learn about one of the world's best sustainable building materials.

Small Earth has been creating low-impact landmark buildings with in several places of the world including Nepal, India, Zimbabwe, Brussels and England.

For the beautiful London's Earth Creature at the Southbank's Hayward Gallery they counted with the help from Hounslow Heath School, who already got their own adobe shelter.

Designed for learning outdoors, sheltering from the elements or for a enjoying some isolation time, Small Earth's Super Adobe buildings are strong and cute.

Iranian Nader Khalili developed Super Adobe in 1984 in response to a NASA call for housing designs for future human settlements on the Moon and on Mars!

But the long polypropylene tubes filled with adobe -- earth, sand, cement or lime -- shelters have been used for decades, primarily for refuge as bunkers during war times (filled with sand).

Strong, fun and easy to build, low-tech and aesthetically interesting, Small Earth's creature will sure inspire kids to be sustainable architects.